单词 | clew-garnet |
释义 | clew-garnetclue-garnetn. Nautical. A tackle to ‘clew up’ the ‘courses’ or lower square-sails in furling; cf. clew-line n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > ropes for furling sails wyning1295 brailsa1450 clew-garnet1626 furling-line1626 buntline1627 clew-line1627 slabline1647 peak-brail1711 throat brail1769 buntline-span1882 α. β. 1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck ii. 18 Mann the clue-garnetts, let the main-sheet fly.1825 H. B. Gascoigne Path to Naval Fame 49 The weighty Courses from their arms they cast, Cluegarnets, Buntlines, for the present fast.1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 15 Clow garnits, tyes, martlits. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. v. 22 The Clew garnet is a rope made fast to the clew of the saile, and from thence runnes in a blocke seased to the middle of the yard, which in furling doth hale vp the clew of the saile close to the middle of the yard. 1752 Chalmers in Philos. Trans. 1749–50 (Royal Soc.) 46 366 We..had our Fore and Main Clew-Garnets manned to haul up our Courses. 1884 Daily News 7 Oct. 2/5 He went to his station on the clew-garnet. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1626 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。